I'm a huge Top Gear fan and I just want to chat with one or all of these guys. Some of my questions would be:

What is the most important thing in your life?
Do you feel like you're living the dream?
What are your interests other than cars?
What's your opinion on the car industry today?
What would be your dream segment to do on Top Gear?

The baby Stig grew up into the current Stig. Stigs grow up very quickley and this was mentioned in the first episode of series 16. Here is the Wikipedia article. I couldn't find a clip of it, but if you want to see it just watch episode 1 of series 16.

It feels like they got three guys from the History office because they drive some sort of sporty car and just told them "The network is getting its own Top Gear. Just talk about the horsies or call a car turboed, I dont know. Now, we can get back to planning our ghost and alien programs".

Don't forget the part where it is just an 40 minute commercial (with more commercials to round it out) for American car companies. Sure UK Top Gear could also be considered a commercial, but when they do it I'm ok with it

The last episode I saw was where they compared the new cars available to law enforcement. They had a decent challenge for them but I feel Top Gear UK would have made it more interesting. I think the issue I have is it felt like an extended video Motortrend or Car and Driver would do. More serious, more conservative but they didnt really talk about how it drive, their thoughts, the specs and test times like a magazine or blog would. It was more them driving the cars and them exclaiming "Mine is better" but not why theirs was better. So its not informative enough to be an extended auto piece but not outlandish enough to be Top Gear.

One of them, Tanner Foust, is actually a pretty badass professional racing driver. However, this doesn't require him to be very funny or interesting, nor are the other two hosts. There's a reason why Adam Ferrara was never an A-List comedian. I don't even know who the third guy is.

I remember being a part of a huge Top Gear livejournal community, as well as finalgear, and more than a few people were in studio while they did it. It was indeed a guy with his dick in a tailpipe and lingerie.

wow. I just got into it so recently I've just been watching episodes randomly based on the description on Netflix. I guess maybe I'll eventually start from square one but until then I'll keep watching out of order.

It's because of The Olympics and other programs that were already planned to be broadcasted on the sunday evenings. Jeremy has confirmed there will be another 'epic race' at some time though (was a couple of weeks/months back, not sure if he tweeted that or said it during an interview).

So your girlfriend hates gypsies, the environment, poor people, the left wing, foreigners, safe driving laws and did I mention poor people? He really hates them. I never understand people who laud over this Clarkson who is in my view an idiot.. he speaks to create "controversy" and the fawning "middle" class and press behave as if he is the funniest and greatest thing on this earth since life came to being. No personal attack on you guys but what do u see in this vile idiot?

I can't speak for anyone else, but in America we don't catch wind of his awful politics most of the time. I'm well aware of how bad they are, but just watching the show, he's completely entertaining to watch based on the show alone. He (mostly) doesn't let his politics known there and it's enjoyable. However I can understand how hard it would be to separate the entertainer from the person if it's in your face all day every day.

Wow, you got to this post late! You're right, his politics rarely enter the show, apart from the occasional snide joke or remark, but as you say he is a public figure here. He has a regular column in our best selling newspaper, which obviously offers more of his personal views and politics and he has a lot of TV appearances and the like. He is a man full of hate and prejudice. That aside I used to watch Top Gear and found it very entertaining and don't have a problem with people watching and enjoying it, but when people claim to like Clarkson himself or his ideology, as the guy I replied to did, it upsets me, because he really is an old fashioned bigot.

I'm fairly certain they did that with the Leaf just to demonstrate what would happen do you run out of charge. With a normal car a gas station is generally within easy reach and a fill up takes minutes, but with the Leaf you first need to find a charging point then wait 13 hours... Much less convenient. The way it was portrayed in the show (while it may not have been honest) was most likely done for entertainment purposes. However, it did get a point across.

I actually kind of dislike the "Jeremy Clarkson" I see on TV. I mean I have no problem with "no nonsense, let's get this done, shoot the paedos" type of people but he just seems not to give a shit about anyone who doesn't earn a salary or are from a foreign country. He seems the type of guy to turn his nose up at someone who collects unemployment benefit. Although he did punch Piers Morgan so that must count for something.

Although I would be interested to know more about him as a person. James May however would be cool, he studied music I think and is very proficient at several instruments. I'd give Richard Hammond a miss though. Sales rep for Renault then went into television. Seems a bit shallow.